Optimism/assessment

Famous quotes containing the words optimism and/or assessment:

“Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.”
—Robert Hewison (b. 1943)

“The first year was critical to my assessment of myself as a person. It forced me to realize that, like being married, having children is not an end in itself. You don’t at last arrive at being a parent and suddenly feel satisfied and joyful. It is a constantly reopening adventure.”
—Anonymous Mother. From the Boston Women’s Health Book Collection. Quoted in The Joys of Having a Child, by Bill and Gloria Adler (1993)